Color
#adb017
#adb017rgb(173, 176, 23)hsl(61, 77%, 39%)oklch(0.731 0.156 111)Colors that go with #adb017
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #adb017: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #adb017 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Minecraft's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #adb017, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #adb017, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #adb017 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #adb017: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #adb017 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #adb017 in 4 real palettes, including Disney's brand system and Chevrolet's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #adb017
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #adb017 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.33:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #adb017 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #adb017 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/adb017-babea2-4e92df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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